Tag: directed by women
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…
The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Girl in the Hallway director Valerie Barnhart blows our mind with her first Animation
Valerie Barnhart’s Girl in the Hallway may have a short runtime, but the film is brimming with a stunning artistic vision that marks every frame….
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Georgia Michailidi and her short film ‘Diane Keaton’
Filmotomy got the opportunity to speak to the write, producer and director of the short film, Diane Keaton, part of the Showcase Selection at the…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Growing up in the shadow of a father who crafted some of the most influential and talked about films of the 20th century, would likely…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Haolu Wang’s The Pregnant Ground
Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, baby name announcement, etc, etc,…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Diane Keaton (Georgia Michailidi)
Diane Keaton is a film about the anti-romanticism of being a muse. Of the impracticality of being sung or written about and the muse lacking…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Old Enough (Marisa Silver)
Our teenage years are essentially made up of mimicry. We leave the nest of our parents, flocking together, or perhaps to another, taken under the…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Meagan Adele Lopez on that ‘Raging Cult’
I honestly didn’t expect to rekindle a teenage crush or crave expensive coffee from Montmartre when I sat down to talk to Meagan Adele Lopez…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘The Pregnant Ground’ director Haolu Wang
One of 20 short films in the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival is The Pregnant Ground from Haolu Wang. We had the…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Shelter in Place (Kelsie Moore)
Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows of a church. That is…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Keep Mum’ director Luana Di Pasquale
What do you know about Luana Di Pasquale? Well, she is, handily for the involvement with the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, a writer and director…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
20 years ago, the world looked very different, especially in regard to LGBTQ+ rights. 11 months before But I’m a Cheerleader premiered at the Toronto…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Luana Di Pasquale’s ‘Keep Mum’
A word of caution. Keep Mum will buzz around in your head long after its final scene. It is a gripping and chilling depiction of…
